Our Work

Collaborate

The ICLS works globally to carry out its mission to enhance biological safety and security. We regularly partner with other organizations that share our mission. Current collaborations take place in Russia and Central Asia; the Middle East and North Africa; and Pakistan.

Our partners:

Organisation of the Islamic Conference's Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, Pakistan

 

                                

Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

 

EastWest Institute , United States

 

International Association Synthetic Biology, Germany

 

International Federation of Biosafety Associations

 

Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, Jordan - Palestine - Israel

 

The Moroccan Biosafety Association (MOBSA), Morocco

 

Pakistan Biological Safety Association (PBSA), Pakistan

 

The Royal Society, United Kingdom

 

Royal Scientific Society. Jordan

 

Non Commercial Partnership "Center of Modern Medical Technology "TEMPO".  Russia

 

Inform

An important component of our work is briefing policy officials of the full spectrum of biological risks and promoting best practices, standards and responsible codes of conduct to the life sciences community.  Click here for a detailed list of recent engagements and presentations by the ICLS staff.

Connect

The ICLS is working to build a global network of scientists and policymakers in order to help reduce biological risks.

Resources

Safeguarding Advances in the Life Sciences, Terence Taylor, EMBO 2006

Natural Security: an interdisciplinary group of life scientists and policy analysts that has been examining the process of biological evolution and its resultant outcomes as models for both analysis of existing security situations and prescriptions for addressing security threats. 

Russian Federal Target Program "National system of chemical and biological safety of the Russian Federation" (2009-2013)

Natural Security at GoogleTechTalks.  Terence Taylor and Raphael Sagarin.  Google campus, May 31, 2008

Decentralize, adapt and cooperate.  Raphael Sagarin et al.  Nature 465, 292-293 (20 May 2010)

Trust Across Borders: Responding to 2009 H1N1 Influenza in the Middle East, Louise Gresham, Assad Ramlawi, Julie Briski, Mariah Richardson, and Terence Taylor.  Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice and Science.  Volume 7, Number 4, 2009

US Screening Framework Guidance for Synthetic Double-Stranded DNA Providers.  DHHS November 2009

Comments of ICLS on the DHHS' Screening Framework Guidance for Synthetic Double-Stranded DNA Providers. March 2010